Community Fund Grants
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| Organization | Year |
Amount |
Initiative | Program | Project Description | Neighborhoods |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ImmSchools | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a program that advocates for the interest of the immigrant community by creating internships for students that do not qualify for city programs, including undocumented students. | Boroughwide |
| Dignity in Schools Campaign | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a citywide coalition of students, parents, advocates, educators and lawyers calling for positive, school-wide approaches to discipline that improve the school environment, reduce conflict, and increase learning. | Boroughwide |
| Brownsville Community Justice Center | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide off-ramps for young people who come into contact with the justice system, including educational, occupational, social, and health services designed to expand their leadership and increase community members' sense of public safety. | Brownsville |
| Footsteps | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth transitioning into mainstream society with resources, leadership development, and peer connections. | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush, Williamsburg |
| Sadie Nash Leadership Project | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support programs that engage youth of color and their experiences to discuss race, identity, power, and privilege, and to build community, critical consciousness, and college and career readiness. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush, East New York, Canarsie, Brownsville |
| Youth Represent | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support direct legal representation and workshops for system-involved youth who face employment discrimination, school suspension, summonses, and other criminal and civil legal issues. +Partially funded by ELMA Music Foundation | Boroughwide |
| Arab-American Family Support Center | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that strengthen Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian immigrant youth’s academic achievement, creative expression and healthy behaviors. | Boroughwide |
| United Community Centers | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support the operation and management of one of the city’s largest youth-led farms as well as a sexual health-focused peer education program. | East New York |
| Caribbean Women's Health Association | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To provide immigration legal support, classes to expectant and new mothers, doulas to low-income women, as well as access to a food pantry and HIV/AIDS prevention education, testing, and counseling. | Boroughwide | |
| Spanish Speaking Elderly Council - RAICES | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | RAICES provides a continuum of linguistic and culturally-relevant services for older adults across five Brooklyn senior centers, an outpatient behavioral health clinic, a case assistance program, and an in-development tele-mental health services model for homebound seniors. | Boroughwide |
| S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth leadership and development programs for systems-involved girls and young women in Brooklyn. | Boroughwide |
| viBe Theater Experience | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | To support programming that engages girls and young women of color to write, create, publish, direct, and perform personal collaborative theater and music.` | Boroughwide |
| Green Guerillas | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a youth-driven training program that creates a pathway to employment and leadership within the food justice movement through skill-building workshops, and engagement with community gardeners and urban farms and leaders in the food justice movement. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Brownsville, East New York, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| Audre Lorde Project | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support youth-led programs and advocacy for LGBTQIA people of color that build leadership and organizing skills, reduce surveillance policing, and promote safer communities. | Boroughwide |
| Brooklyn College Community Partnership | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support an after school program that provides mentorship, access to Brooklyn College's resources, and dedicated, year-round academic and interdisciplinary support to under-resourced students across Brooklyn schools. | Boroughwide |
| Footsteps | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support formerly ultra-Orthodox Jewish youth transitioning into mainstream society with resources, leadership development, and peer connections. | Crown Heights, Borough Park, Kensington, Flatbush, Williamsburg |
| H.O.L.L.A | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a social justice education, leadership, and organizing program for low income youth of color focused on trauma recovery and healing. | Boroughwide |
| Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI) | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For the hospital-based violence interruption program and in-school and community-based discussion groups and workshops. | East New York, Brownsville, Flatbush |
| Drive Change | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide training and first job experience for formerly incarcerated and court-involved young people through a nonprofit food truck. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Bushwick |
| Center for Community Alternatives | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support counseling, life skills courses, and after-school arts-based activities for youth living in secure and non-secure detention facilities. | Boroughwide |
| Fifth Avenue Committee | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving) | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To organize South Asian youth for campaigns focused on educational equity, economic justice, legalization, workplace rights, and an end to racial profiling and anti-immigrant enforcement. | Flatbush, Midwood |
| The Brownsville Partnership | 2021 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | To support programs that engage, empower, and employ residents across the age spectrum on issues of housing, public space, community infrastructure, and economic development. | Brownsville |
| UPROSE | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For community organizing, public education, and leadership programs for youth that advance environmental sustainability and resiliency. | Sunset Park, South Slope, Gowanus |
| Carroll Gardens Association | 2022 | $45,000 | Immigrant Rights Fund | To support tenants and immigrant domestic workers in their advocacy for permanent affordable housing, cooperative economics, and domestic worker rights. | Bay Ridge, Bedford Stuyvesant, Bensonhurst, Brownsville, Bushwick, Canarsie, Crown Heights, East Flatbush, East New York, Flatbush, Prospect Heights, Red Hook, Sunset Park | |
| Flatbush Development Corporation | 2020 | $45,000 | Brooklyn Elders Fund | Brooklyn Elders Fund Grant | Flatbush Development Corporation’s Flatbush Tenant Coalition organizes older adults across 300 buildings in Central Brooklyn, with a focus on educating the community on housing laws and tenants’ rights, advocating for policy change, and expanding access to entitlements and benefits. | Flatbush, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens |
| Young New Yorkers | 2020 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To provide court-mandated arts diversion programs for youth that engage them in social justice issues through the creation of large-scale public art projects. | Boroughwide |
| Youth Design Center | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth | For a community-based creative agency and community design center that provides a gateway for young people to learn marketable skills in STEAM, access higher education, achieve economic mobility, and become civic leaders. Youth Design Center was formerly known as “Made in Brownsville.” | Brownsville |
| Red Hook Initiative | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support an initiative that promotes social and economic justice in Red Hook while cultivating local leadership and strengthening the future of youth development through academic support, leadership training, part-time employment, college guidance, emotional health support, opportunities, and services that prepare youths for a self-sufficient, civically-active adulthood. | Red Hook |
| Black Women's Blueprint | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a partnership with student organizers to pilot campus-based transformative justice practices that hold harm-doers accountable and support sexual violence survivors in their healing and development. | Crown Heights, Boroughwide |
| Center for NuLeadership on Human Justice and Healing | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For programs that divert neighborhood youth from arrest proceedings by developing pre-arrest diversion options for law-officers. | Bedford Stuyvesant |
| Fifth Avenue Committee | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For a leadership and advocacy program for NYCHA youth. | Gowanus, Red Hook |
| Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy | 2019 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | For the creative, educational, and vocational development of Black and Caribbean youth in Central Brooklyn. | Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, Flatbush |
| New York State Youth Leadership Council | 2022 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support undocumented immigrant youth organizing around access to higher education and healthcare, protection from deportation, and the right to work. | Boroughwide, Sunset Park, Prospect Heights |
| Flex Dance Program | 2021 | $45,000 | Invest in Youth | Invest in Youth Grant Program | To support a Flex Dance and creative mentorship program aimed at reducing the likelihood of recidivism and re-entry for young people in secure detention centers. | Boroughwide |